Books
Jun. 4, 2021
The Pistol Patriarchs
A review of two recent books examining the origins of some of today’s firearms.
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
In the last several years, Second Amendment controversies have reached their high tide. The decisions of the U.S. Supreme court, largely under the steerage of Antonin Scalia, have struck down nearly every municipal ordinance controlling small arms, even in gun congested cities like Chicago and St. Louis. The present NRA is like a creaking bridge, about to collapse into the growing, vocal river of mass-shooting outrage. (This is somewhat the result of personal scandals besetting Wayne LaPie...
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